Clos de Tart 2021

The 2021 Clos de Tart Grand Cru is more sultry than Hubert Lignier's Clos de la Roche yet well defined, delivering the complexity you expect from this vineyard with cranberry, raspberry and just a hint of rose petals. Fine delineation despite the present reduction. The palate is medium-bodied with sapid red berry fruit. Fresh and quite saline in the mouth, this feels linear and maybe a bit conservative. But in not putting a foot wrong, it has much to offer and it lingers nicely on the finish. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting. (Drink between 2027-2045)

Just a little more depth of colour than Forges, but not by much. The bouquet suggests a greater depth of classy red fruit, all about subtlety rather than power. This is about the tensile strength rather than overt power. A redcurrant and raspberry fruit, all red berries, fine boned tannins and a good balance with the acidity. Everything in its place, a fine long finish, but absolutely not the more monolithic style of an earlier period.